Comments on: Surface with Windows RT Reviewhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/
The Definitive Guide to Tech and CarsFri, 09 Dec 2016 17:18:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7By: Jackhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-253906
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:57:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-253906Not being able to run flash a major drawback to an otherwise functional software package. I am unable to read my local newspaper or watch press briefings from my favorite college teams. I would highly recommend not purchasing an RT product if you enjoy the full internet experience.
]]>By: sumedhhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-251511
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:41:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-251511I don’t need fart apps .. I am extremely satisfied with the short list of quality app available on windows application store.
]]>By: John Freimanhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-251442
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:31:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-251442my Surface RT work perfectly with my Epson Artisan 730 printer AND scanner. no software needed to be installed.
]]>By: Vish2801https://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-251349
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:22:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-251349Surface RT has USB 2.0, So that means we can use data connector to use 3G,4G, right ?
Btw, thanx for very unbiased review.You hi-lighted both pros and cons in true way.other reviewers review in such a way that you can easily find out that he’s doing bias there.True tech journalism from you, I appreciate.
]]>By: Andrew Leehttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-251333
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:23:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-251333Window 8 RT has both twitter app (in fact many) and facebook app (in People hub)
]]>By: Mark Gibbshttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-251323
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:49:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-251323I really love the new Surface RT I picked up on day 1, and yes the apps are on the Ipad are not all there but you know what, all the frustrations that I have with the Ipad are gone with the surface, like printing, usb support, Flash websites, and all the basic stuff I do everyday works on the surface, if I want to play on facebook I just go to the site, same with instagram or anything else like that. I think MS has it right with making the OS a tablet and not make the phone OS on the tablet. I have also upgraded my Parents and they have not stopped talking about how fast win 8 is on their pc over win 7 and that “farmville” works so much better. since they are 80 years old there is a lot that they just don’t get or remember like when I call them on Skype, they never answer because he has the sound turned down because of the noises on famville and he does not see the message pop up when someone is calling … it needs some kind of electric shock :) just kidding but it seems like all the family is really loving the new windows. over the Ipad.. My brother told me he does not pick up the ipad anymore. which I have a hard time believing since it never left his hands..
]]>By: Fiorenzo Bendottihttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-251316
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:00:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-251316You can tweak audio settings in the control panel by using the enhancements. The stock audio settings need to be tweaked to get better volume. This hopefully will be available in the touch interface settings option, because as of now, its buried pretty deep and some would consider it hard to find. Possibly, an audio driver update might help also.
]]>By: Joe Blohttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-249805
Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:14:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-249805Surface Pro is Haswell-powered..double the GPU power of 4000
Yes , they will run.
]]>By: orangejedi829https://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-249710
Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:38:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-249710Ha, good luck running those on integrated graphics!
]]>By: Cirno Youseihttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-249608
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:50:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-249608Is it possible to play games on it? (not those usual tablet games, but rather things like DoW2 and what not)
]]>By: Jesse Dawsonhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-249589
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:26:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-249589What about apps games and so on ? It looks cool but have not read any thing about apps
]]>By: Steve Wiserhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-249136
Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:05:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-249136Would not have on simply based on my experience with the Windows platform. Can you image how slow the Surface will be after a couple of months and 50 security updates? It very well may be fast out of the box..but…wait.
]]>By: Billhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248968
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:57:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248968yes, I just tested it and it works perfectly. Not sure how it will effect battery life.
]]>By: LovingSurfaceRThttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248963
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:26:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248963Yes, I just tested it with my Surface RT and a Seagate 1.5TB FreeAgent GoFlex drive and it popped right up asking me what I wanted to do (open, use for backups, etc.) I was able to both read/write to the drive.
]]>By: keithhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248863
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:18:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248863I’m disappointed that there’s not an option to enable full flash support. I can understand limiting it by default but there should be an option to fully enable it.
]]>By: Vinny Bagofsausageshttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248620
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:10:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248620Disappointed. Hope the Windows phone is better.
]]>By: Jeramey15https://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248506
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:32:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248506Yes you can! I currently use a Series 7 slate with Win8, and its awesome for photography. I actually did a show recently – popped in my CF card via the usb reader, did some lite adjustments in photoshop, and shot out the proofs via email (and uploaded an album to Facebook) while they were doing their last few songs.

I am absolutely in love with my Series 7 (which I am typing this response on how btw), as a photographer because I can finally keep my laptop at home. I actually bought it as a holdover until Surface Pro comes out (which is more comparable to the Series 7).

Another perk? Series 7 and Surface Pro both come with digital pens. My current slate uses Wacom’s digitizer – and I’m praying that the Surface Pro will get that feature as well. I can’t tell you how valuable it’s been to do retouching from a device you can use with a pen. I find it pretty similar to using Wacom’s LCD displays – but more mobile.

While the Surface RT doesn’t have full Win8 (so you can’t run Photoshop) it does have the usb drive for you to download those photos to the internal storage.

]]>By: alejandro mirandahttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248504
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:30:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248504That may be the case but if one is reading the review it would have been nice to point out the feature (connected standby) responsible for the drain on the battery as a way of explanation then compare it to the iPad’ s performance. Also, i read in another review (The Ed Bott Report) that in his test, the battery actually performed as advertised although he, of course, did not compare it to iPad’s performance. I guess different people use the Surface RT differently resulting to different results.

Anyway, I appreciate the review. IMO, its at least without bias compared to some reviews i have read.

]]>By: ciddyhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248298
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:01:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248298Looking foward to the PRO too, but good luck running Skyrim or other games on a “Core i5 Processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000”. But running truecrypt and such will totally serve me as a proper laptop replacement…
]]>By: BowerikWowbagrhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248290
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:31:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248290Can Surface RT mount and power a laptop hard drive via the USB port? It’d be great for photographers if they can copy data off their memory cards into a 1TB+ hard drive.
]]>By: Raygunhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248276
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:24:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248276Thank you for the well done unbiased review Vince.
]]>By: marcos eduardo limahttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248270
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:43:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248270what is the space the w8rt and office 2013 has?
]]>By: Manzoor E Elahihttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248262
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:36:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248262Good job on the review.
]]>By: Diego Letamendihttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248261
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:31:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248261Really impressed with the review, great job!
]]>By: Skunkwurxhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248209
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:06:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248209bit of battlefield and CoD mmmmmm… well pro mmmmmm xbox controller
]]>By: chuckdalyhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248172
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:13:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248172Great review. I like the idea of Windows RT. I can’t believe Microsoft didn’t get rid of the Desktop mode completely. A metro themed Office suite, along with 20 of the most popular iOS/Android apps in RT flavor is what anyone should expect out of a new platform. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. I think Surface RT will be a great product in the near future. I just wonder whether or not people will care given the short attention span there is in the gadgetverse.
]]>By: Devon Hhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248164
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:12:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248164Does anyone know if the RT will be able to run executable .jar files, or will i have to wait on the pro for that kind of functionality? Based on what was stated about flash limitations, I’m kinda doubting that it will run java. If not .jars, will it be able to run applets in the browser?
]]>By: sanshirohttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248156
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:46:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248156Epic review. Haven’t read or seen the whole thing :-D but I just wanted to compliment you on your hard work!
]]>By: AmiRamihttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248137
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:39:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248137I don’t have enough faith in what the surface pro will be able to deliver battery wise
]]>By: Vincent Nguyenhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248135
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:27:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248135compared to the iPad 3 with LTE and WiFi on, while it also continuously get updates, it lasted much longer.
]]>By: Toddhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248116
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:31:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248116I’ve actually been wondering how that worked. I noticed flash worked sometimes and not others. Thanks for the informative comment and link
]]>By: ht4nhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248115
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:30:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248115In the last 3 years, the apps that I care about are Browser,Skype,WhatsUp,Mail,Photos,Music,News,Bloomberg,Stock,CNN,FewPopularGames that I play for 2 days then got bored (I feel I better play games somewhere else in Xbox or PS3). Do I need 700K apps? hell no! lots of those apps are sucky anyway.
]]>By: ht4nhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248112
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:26:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248112Thumbs up for the review, very detailed, with the great sense of objectivity. Can’t wait for mine.
]]>By: Venkyhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248081
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:22:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248081What is the difference between this tablet and a laptop/netbook/chromebook?
]]>By: Mark Pomponihttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248072
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:50:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248072I had an iPad and got rid of. Then got a Playbook and loved it. I might just get this one. I just hope the gestures are as good as the Playbook or better.
]]>By: Good ol' JShttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248070
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:42:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248070MS likely has an encrypted bootloader, not unlike what they would love to see hardware manufacturers do to the standard PC hardware thereby making it harder to load a secondary O/S such as Ubuntu. And honestly Ubuntu (with the exception of Unity) isn’t very touch friendly.
]]>By: AmiRamihttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248067
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:27:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248067Yes but one of those sites is FaceBook. That alone allows for several games that are not yet available in the store. Also there is no HBO Go app but that too works in the browser. The big sites will usually be white listed and thats where the majority of good apps come from in the first place. But that being said RT does have a long way to go.
]]>By: AmiRamihttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248065
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:25:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248065Its never too late. if anyone has proved that its apple. And as for the apps, they will come in time. But a lot of people seem to be forgetting that the “metro” IE comes with flash enabled for the big websites, so a lot of flash games or contect such as FB games or HBO Go work directly in the browser unlike iOS devices. After all, thats where the whole app craze started, safari’s lack of legacy plug ins and the resulting need for customzed apps.
]]>By: firethornhttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248032
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:26:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248032The Surface hardware looks like it’s a pretty nice package (even with the lower screen res) but I just can’t get over the artificially locked-down Win RT on its software side.

So, either it means waiting for the Surface Pro or until someone hacks the bootloader and gets Ubuntu running on it.

Oh yeah, great review btw! Very thorough and nice to read.

]]>By: Good ol' JShttps://www.slashgear.com/surface-with-windows-rt-review-23253115/#comment-248028
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:10:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=253115#comment-248028Save your money and buy a better laptop. Tablets are still by and large consumption devices. Unless you carry a 10″ laptop which is just insane as far as I’m concerned…Spend your money on the right device for the job. I’m sure a Windows tablet will meet your need like 60% of the way but think about the work you’re doing. I know for me any spreadsheet I touch is at least a dozen columns and being able to see all/most of the data at once helps significantly. Now think of how that will work on a tablet.